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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Have lived my entire adult life outside of California and it still comes through loud and clear on the dialect quiz. Childhood linguistic settings are really something:

List of most and least similar cities from dialect quiz -- most similar are San Francisco, Los Angeles and Albuquerque and least similar are Boston, Portland, Maine and NYC.

map of the United States with more dialect similarity in the west and less in the east, especially northeast.

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I am incredibly honored and excited that my story won the Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize judged by Jemimah Wei. Enormous thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and @jemmawei.bsky.social

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Problems of Inheritance Law in Fig Country, Chapter 117 | Fractured

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ghosts are like salt for storytelling. Take any plot in any genre and add a ghost to it to make all the flavors pop!

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This essay is so right—all the dads in Bridgerton are dead and part of the fantasy is patriarchy without patriarchs.

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Elizabeth is so right on about this song and its homage to "St. James Infirmary Blues" and McTell's "Dying Crapshooter's Blues"

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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

EWS is such a treasure for the writing community in Europe - it's amazing what they've accomplished in just a few years. I loved having the chance to participate in the multilingual salon at Lettrétage and am excited for future events.

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just finished this gorgeous, spooky book on the murder ballad genre by @katyhoran.bsky.social and now I understand that when song lyrics talk about going down to the willow garden, that means murder. Also, I want to read basically everything on the recommended further reading list at the end.

The front cover of the book Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore by Katy Horan

A list of recommended reading from the book Murder Ballads

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My kids and I attended this AOC event last night in Berlin. She is very charismatic in person! We were sitting next to some paramedics who were there at the venue's behest just in case of an emergency, not out of any interest in AOC, and they loved this bit about not letting ICE agents use bathrooms

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm delighted that this odd story about a priest foraging for mushrooms has found a wonderful home on @freeflashfiction.bsky.social! Massive thanks to EIC Ian Rushton for believing in this piece!

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ooh the vanishings and slow-burn eeriness in this story are so good

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very true! Also, Cyndi Lauper has a lot of soul.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/01/2026

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

More accurately: I have told the clergy of the episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness and I've asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written..."

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

On this shortest day and longest night, I'm so happy to be part of @necessaryfiction.com's wonderful solstice project, which will be featuring new short pieces of wintry writing from now until new year's:

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We’re all being punished because a bunch of unattractive billionaires are mad they can only buy the faux respect of sycophants, and not real cultural influence.

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Hey, I do hate my student loan company with the fire of a thousand suns and coincidentally enough have asked for this very novel for Christmas and am greatly looking forward to reading it!

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Some really excellent writing and reporting here on the monstrous absurdity of ICE in New Orleans.

Excerpt from linked article: "even stipulating that America is a nation of immigrants, and that the persecution of immigrants is an insult to our history wherever it occurs in this land, it must still be said that launching a violent government purge of immigrants is even more ludicrously monstrous when it happens in New Orleans. In New Orleans! A city that for centuries has collected drifters from Europe and dreamers from the Caribbean and schemers from Central America and prisoners from Africa, and has molded all their descendants into a culture unmatched anywhere else in this plastic country."

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:

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“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911)

Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

me, after that: whew, really learned my lesson this time, will definitely remember a book next time me, next time: wait where is my book

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"...writing a novel is like being lost in the dark woods, and writing a short story is like being set upon by wolves... writing flash is like stepping on fire ants." Erin McGraw, expanding on Flannery O'Connor in @necessaryfiction.com: necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Super excited that my story "La Brea Tar Pits" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026 -- huge thanks to Gooseberry Pie and Jeff Harvey!

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Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Can't stop thinking about number 33 here.

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Awesome piece by the Berlin-based writer Jane Yager in the fabulous new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: "I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad let slip that the pits are still active." gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...

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La Brea Tar Pits - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Imleedh Ali on Unsplash by Jane Yager I’m the one who wanted to come here, but now I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad le...

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